Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 1976

Thursday 5 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 486 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Wednesday 4 February

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:08  12:56 madhyāhna ends
11:2011:4412:0812:3212:5613:2013:44

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 5 February

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:08  12:56 madhyāhna ends
11:2011:4412:0812:3212:5613:2013:44

48 of 48 minutes covered

Pañcamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 21:02 on Wed 4 Feb to 23:40 on Thu 5 Feb.

    1976-02-04T13:01:56Z → 1976-02-05T15:40:13Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:08–12:56 on the 4th, 12:08–12:56 on the 5th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 4th and 48 of 48 on the 5th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 29141 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 1976: Thursday 5 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 1976 falls on Thursday 5 February. Pañcamī runs from 21:02 on Wed 4 Feb to 23:40 on Thu 5 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1976/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 5 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 5 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 5 Feb
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/vasanta-panchami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Māgha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“S 5 Sri Pancami (purvaviddha), Sarasvati puja (Bengal), Vasanta pancami, Madana pancami.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 4thCoveredMadhyāhna 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:02 → 07:4011:4348 min11:430 min4 Feb
Chicago07:02 → 09:4011:4148 min11:410 min4 Feb
Jersey City08:02 → 10:4011:4648 min11:470 min4 Feb
Port of Spain09:02 → 11:4011:5648 min11:560 min4 Feb
London13:02 → 15:4011:510 min11:5148 min5 Feb
Durban15:02 → 17:4011:460 min11:4648 min5 Feb
Dubai17:02 → 19:4012:090 min12:0948 min5 Feb
Delhi18:32 → 21:1012:110 min12:1148 min5 Feb
Kolkata18:32 → 21:1011:270 min11:2748 min5 Feb
Singapore20:32 → 23:1012:240 min12:2548 min5 Feb
Sydney00:02 → 02:4012:450 min12:4548 min5 Feb
Suva01:02 → 03:4011:560 min11:5648 min5 Feb
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vasanta-panchami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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